Iron prison and bronze cage
The Chinese idiom Ti ě y ù t ó NGL ó ng in pinyin means a tight prison. It's from starry sky: lone bamboo gentleman II.
The origin of Idioms
Guo Moruo's "starry sky: lone bamboo gentleman II" said: "there are iron cages for enslavement, and there are dangerous, ruthless, shady, greedy, swarming like bees."
Idiom usage
It is often used in figurative sentences.
Iron prison and bronze cage
persevere ten years in one 's studies in spite of hardships - shí nián hán chuāng
fan the flames and add fuel to the flames - zòng fēng zhǐ liáo
give up the evil and follow the good - juān cán qù shā
with a bear 's loin and a tiger 's back - xióng yāo hǔ bèi
Looking at flowers in the mirror - jìng lǐ guān huā
have no contact with each other - shuǐ huǒ wú jiāo